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suspiciouscoffee said:

Does there exist a project anywhere to restore STVI in something closer to Meyer’s preferred aspect ratio? I read somewhere that he preferred something around 1.85-2.0, but the Blu-Ray, at least the one I have, seems to be in 2.35 or so.

There was an open matte verison (1.33) on Laserdisc, VHS and VCD. The widescreen Laserdisc was about 2.00 aspect.



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DuracellEnergizer said:

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(On DS9 S3E21 “The Die is Cast”)

I’ve been reading Garak’s interactions with Bashir as being, in a Cardassian way, rather flirtatious. I assume nothing comes of this later in the show, but that feels like such a missed opportunity. O well.

'90s Trek wasn’t quite ready for sausage fests. Taco parties, on the other hand. . . .

I’m way late to this post…

Come on man.

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Here we go again:

http://trekcore.com/blog/2018/06/star-trek-discovery-showrunners-harberts-berg-out-for-season-2/

series showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg have been released from the series as Season 2 continues production in Toronto.

The pair leave the series as of Episode 205, reports The Hollywood Reporter, and while they’ll be credited on their episodes of the next season of Discovery, the show will be led by executive producer Alex Kurtzman for the remainder of the season. Kurtzman, who got his start in the Trek franchise in the Kelvin Timeline film series, has been with Discovery since the show’s original announcement in late 2015.

Also departing the series for Season 2 is executive producer Akiva Goldsman, director of “Context is for Kings” and Season 1’s finale “Will You Take My Hand?.” Goldsman had, as THR reports, “a management style and personality that clashed with the writing staff.”

The series is about to take a “a planned production hiatus” after Episode 205 is completed, not expected to impact delivery of the series to viewers in 2019, to allow Kurtzman to settle in as the new showrunner and straighten things out inside the Discovery production machine.

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Should I try watching Discovery? I’ve heard the most horrid things, and I’m a huge fan of TOS.

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Handman said:

Should I try watching Discovery? I’ve heard the most horrid things, and I’m a huge fan of TOS.

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Handman said:

Should I try watching Discovery? I’ve heard the most horrid things, and I’m a huge fan of TOS.

No. My understanding is that the last little bit of Season 1 starts the crew adopting some semblance of Prime-Universe-Starfleet’s ideals, but I haven’t watched that far. Early Season 1 has a tone to the characters that feels more at home in The Walking Dead; retcons TOS side-characters from once being mischievous to now downright sinister; throws in the word “fuck” at least twice for edginess’ sake; throws the concept of respecting the chain of command out the window; and completely screws with what tech should be available at the time.

So unless whoever it is over there that’s running things gets their act together and does it right (like The Orville does), that will be an emphatic and unequivocal “No.”

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chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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chyron8472 said:

Handman said:

Should I try watching Discovery? I’ve heard the most horrid things, and I’m a huge fan of TOS.

No. My understanding is that the last little bit of Season 1 starts the crew adopting some semblance of Prime-Universe-Starfleet’s ideals, but I haven’t watched that far.

Some of the characters say/agree with something to that effect (extremely contrived), but you don’t get that from the series, i.e. the series does not reflect any of those ideals.

It’s an interesting watch, but not for the right reasons.

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Handman said:

Should I try watching Discovery? I’ve heard the most horrid things, and I’m a huge fan of TOS.

An opinion of a TOS fan.
Discovery is a really good generic action sci-fi show.
Discovery is a horrible star Trek show.

If you can switch your brain into a “this is not Star Trek” mode, you will probably enjoy it. If you care about canon, you probably won’t

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I have decided, under great deliberation, to not watch the terrible show.

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I don’t think I need to watch it either. I really like the 1966-2005 Trek universe. I don’t even care much about the new trilogy. I do think they’re good movies, I just don’t have the drive to rewatch them like I do the old stuff.

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Well Kurtzman is no Feige, I don’t think he’ll be able to maintain an extended universe, but I would love to be proven wrong. The animated series sounds very interesting to me.

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Weird to say someone is “no Feige” when Feige is one of the few who’s even attempted it so far and had done nothing prior to it that would’ve suggested he could.

That being said, Kurtzman did kill the “Dark Universe,” so maybe there is a point there.

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DominicCobb said:

Weird to say someone is “no Feige” when Feige is one of the few who’s even attempted it so far and had done nothing prior to it that would’ve suggested he could.

That being said, Kurtzman did kill the “Dark Universe,” so maybe there is a point there.

Correct. We know he tried and failed. The only question is if the failure of the Mummy and therefore of Dark Universe is ONLY his fault or if the studio interfered too much

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pittrek said:

DominicCobb said:

Weird to say someone is “no Feige” when Feige is one of the few who’s even attempted it so far and had done nothing prior to it that would’ve suggested he could.

That being said, Kurtzman did kill the “Dark Universe,” so maybe there is a point there.

Correct. We know he tried and failed. The only question is if the failure of the Mummy and therefore of Dark Universe is ONLY his fault or if the studio interfered too much

Well Kurtzman directed the film in addition to producing, so there was a level of quality control there that Feige has never had. Anyone who’s seen the film will tell you the reason the Dark Universe failed was because the movie just plain sucked. There are elements there that could potentially come down to interference, but I think it was going to be bad regardless.

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pittrek said:

Well Kurtzman is no Feige, I don’t think he’ll be able to maintain an extended universe, but I would love to be proven wrong. The animated series sounds very interesting to me.

A new animated Trek is long overdue. The Starfleet Academy idea keeps coming back like a bad penny though. According to the making of TMP book, one of the rejected pitches for TAS was making the Enterprise a cadet training vessel. Funny how that sort of did happen in TWOK.

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DominicCobb said:

That being said, Kurtzman did kill the “Dark Universe,” so maybe there is a point there.

What? Do you you mean the Mirror Universe?

JEDIT: Okay, apparently not, so I have no idea what you’re talking about.

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chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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Watching the original series for the first time in years. I’m still early on but it’s fantastic. I know it gets less consistent soon though and that’s a shame but some of them have such imagination.

You know what Joe’s mistake was? He wasn’t born an Irishman. *winks*

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Nothing tops the original series.

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TOS has the best tone/feel of all the Trek series’, but I’m not keen on the Technicolor sets/costumes, the episodic storytelling, or the steadfast focus on Kirk/Spock/McCoy. TNG & especially DS9 did better jobs utilizing and developing their characters.

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Handman said:

Nothing tops the original series.

Disagree with that, but it is very enjoyable and in a different way than the rest.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

TOS has the best tone/feel of all the Trek series’, but I’m not keen on the Technicolor sets/costumes, the episodic storytelling, or the steadfast focus on Kirk/Spock/McCoy. TNG & especially DS9 did better jobs utilizing and developing their characters.

Just about every series was striving for vivid color once the networks began regular color broadcasting in 1966, and NBC parent RCA wanted to sell a lot of shiny new color tv’s. Developing the supporting cast simply wasn’t a thing in 1960’s tv. We’re lucky the Enterprise even had the impression of a constant crew.

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